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"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider." »Damon Runyon
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"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain." »Pierre Trudeau
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." »Bertrand Russell
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"Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." »Jerry Coleman
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"Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit." »Jerry Coleman
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"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." »Laura Swenson
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"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever." »Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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"My main hope for myself is to be where I am." »Woody Harrelson
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"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." »Stephen Covey
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"Man's main task is to give birth to himself." »Erich Fromm
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"It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well." »Rene Descartes
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Flexibility is one of the main roads leading to happiness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing." »Lady Nancy Astor
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"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." »Erich Fromm
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"The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence." »Bertrand Russell
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"Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy." »Walt Whitman
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"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it." »Bill Cosby
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"Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it." »George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
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"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing." »Jim Dodge
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"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." »Tom Landry
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny." »Norman Cousins
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"My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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